How to determine if Oracle DB is alive from ESQL-C file?

From: richard.dib <cafe_at_cbnewse.cb.att.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1993 20:33:27 GMT
Message-ID: <CCsp3v.8HD_at_cbnewse.cb.att.com>

(We are running Oracle 6.0 under Unix)

Does anybody know what would be the best way to determine if ORACLE is up and running? Currently we have a process that will do a "select" periodicaly and if it works it means that ORACLE is alive and kicking. I am not sure why we just don't check if the Oracle process are running (using the "ps" command) and why we are doing this.

I would like to know your ideas. Please post them here so that everybody can read them.

Thanks in advance,

Richard Dib
AT&T BL
dib_at_psp.att.com

P.S. Thanks to all of you that replied to the raw disk partition posting. Received on Fri Sep 03 1993 - 22:33:27 CEST

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